russia s involvement in last year s election, he s repeatedly mentioned the wmd case. why should we trust them, they didn t know what they were talking about. they diplomat know what they were talking about then, so for them to go back and look at it again, it s an interesting moment of pressure there. joining us from tehran. we saw signals from tehran with the cabinet meeting and what president rouhani said, they are not liking what they re hearing from washington. absolutely not, andrea. this is not what they wanted to hear. this is not what they expected to happen two years after the deal was signed. the very powerful leader of iran s meeting was in moscow today. he said if the u.s. pulls out of the deal, that spells the end of the deal.
news. mission over, but hardly mission accomplished in iraq. so today i can report that, as promised, the rest of our troops in iraq will come home by the end of the year. now president bush began the war in march 2003 with a dose of what the pentagon called shock and awe. in announcing its end, president obama used the term success, not victory, and said it was time america focused less on wars overseas and more on economic problems here at home. i would note that the end of war in iraq reflects the larger transition. the tide of war is receding. there is no doubt public opinion is on the president s side. nearly 7 in 10 americans oppose the war in iraq. but a number of conservatives, including the leading republican candidates for president tonight say, president obama is weakening america and emboldening iran. the former massachusetts governor, mitt romney, said the unavoidable question is whether this decision is the result of a naked political calculation or simp
intelligence network. how do you get deep? it s very, very hard. the administration is saying trust us. after the wmd case in iraq, after so many cases in which particularly during the bush administration we had outright lies, told to the american people, there s not a lot of trust of government when the president comes out and says we know this leads up to the very highest levels of the quds force. in relationship, in the overall relationship of political accountability and military force, there s a remarkable development today separate from the iran situation. president obama today sent a letter to congress telling them that past tense he has ordered 100 u.s. combat troops to four countries in central africa to find the lords resistance army. the letter says these will be combat ready troops but they ll be doing training, not actual fighting themselves. did we have any idea this was coming, steve? is this relatively out of the blue? this is semi out of the blue. general carter ha
presumably also telling president-elect trump because he too receives that intelligence weather he s reading it or not is another question. when you re speaking with sources, are you pressing theming to make this information public to the american people? are you pressing these source to share the documents publicly? we certainly are. and it s not just us. if you look, there was a letter last week from seven democratic senators on the senate intelligence committee asking the administration to declassify as much as they can here. there were some republicans who have called for declassification, not as many. and that s important because as we learned in the iraq experience, intelligence is never a black and white thing. there are always areas of gray, there are dissenters in the wmd case that president-elect trump has indicated, eventually we convinced and congress convinced the bush administration to